Tom Spencer

MAY 16, 2020

This article identifies what lies ahead for graduates considering a future in consulting, and highlights key insights that I gained by interviewing junior and senior consultants. Management consultants get the opportunity to work on challenging real world problems for companies, governments and nonprofits. Brace yourself.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

They might wonder whether a former financier could make it as a nonprofit executive director, for instance. But if your friend forcefully defends your passion for the cause and your people skills, you’re very likely to at least win an interview for the position. Find opportunities where inexperience is a virtue.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Here at MC, we had the pleasure of recently interviewing Josh and asking him how he’s navigated his interesting career path, and how consulting was a great place for his passions and skills to collide. I was selected to interview at both the NIH and the DoD and subsequently was offered positions in both organizations.

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Emerson Consulting Group

JANUARY 10, 2019

There’s nothing like the process of writing to bring forth more clarity with regard to your own understanding of your writing’s subject matter, which in this case will always be, one way or another, what your company does and how it does it. Writing a book will deepen your understanding of your company’s value proposition.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 27, 2018

For years, companies, universities and nonprofits have researched the reasons why women are less likely to enter STEM field s — and why, once they enter, they face challenges that frequently push them out. We hear, in interviews and focus groups, that women are consistently spoken over and even robbed of their ideas.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

We studied the post-CEO careers of 50 Chief Executives in the Fortune 500, and interviewed 13 of them. Over half assume leadership positions at nonprofit organizations and almost all are philanthropic. .” Almost every CEO we interviewed reported great satisfaction in their work lives after being CEO.

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Emerson Consulting Group

MAY 7, 2019

But there is indeed a case to be made in terms of business milestones achieved by Henry Thoreau in his lifetime. Some have attributed its death knell to its unorthodox approach but if this was the case, the founders apparently had no regrets. Many scoff at even the notion of the b-word belonging in the same sentence with Henry’s name.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Harvard Business Review interviewed the CEOs and other business leaders who signed up to the Future Economy Project, our initiative spotlighting businesses’ sustainability agendas. HBR: Of the interviews, what jumped out at you? But it’s hard to make that case at the scale of mitigation measures that are required.

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Emerson Consulting Group

APRIL 4, 2019

He then shuffles through his case until he locates said article, pulling it out and sliding them across the conference table. Do you wonder how to get the word out about a book you have recently published in addition traditional actions like book reviews and radio interviews? Let me see if I have it with me.”.

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Emerson Consulting Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Nor can they share much with their spouses, unless their spouse has also served as a top officer, which is usually not the case.” Fred Green, Chair Emeritus of the CEO Club of Boston, explains that CEOs “often can’t ask their employees for advice as such employees simply would not know how to respond.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

Each spring, Bain also has an “Impact Day” like Deloitte’s – branded “Community Impact Day,” everyone leaves the office to spend the day supporting local nonprofits, which most recently included the Anacostia Watershed Society, KIPP DC, the Rock Creek Conservancy, and the Father McKenna Center.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2017

What should you say in an interview? He suggests researching workplaces that partner with nonprofits that help “convicts reinsert themselves” in the workforce. Interviews will definitely require a bit more care and forethought than they did before. What the Experts Say. Prepare your story. Be gracious.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2018

Far too many great ideas for solving pressing social problems are not being applied at the scale they deserve, because thousands of nonprofit organizations are teetering on the brink of collapse. Consider the case of Hot Bread Kitchen, a training program for low-income women who want to work in the food industry in New York City.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JULY 21, 2010

Regular readers of this blog know that I've been involved in two successful nonprofit mergers, as well as a third attempt that was never consummated, and I've written several blog posts on my feelings about nonprofit mergers. In those cases, it would have been preferable to think about this a lot earlier.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

By placing teens in subsidized jobs with government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and private employers, these programs were initially seen as a way to increase family earnings, improve future employment prospects, and reduce crime. Many large U.S. Long-term program outcomes. What’s in it for the employers?

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

“It’s the equivalent of doing informational interviews. Many clients will have their own contract template, but you should have one just in case. Case Study #1: Get your ducks in a row first. Case Study #2: Build a reliable network and be comfortable with downtime.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

With 8,000 employees across 56 offices, it accepts clients in private, public, and nonprofit sectors. Its engineering services portfolio is among the strongest of any consulting firm, and it is also known for its business lines in nonprofit and public sectors. Cases may be understaffed, creating extra hours and large workloads.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

In each case I served as part of the negotiating team, protecting the interests of my client, and managing communications to staff, as well as managing day-to-day operations of the organization. In only one situation was I asked to investigate, and then implement, a plan for bankruptcy and an orderly shut down of operations.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 8, 2018

nonprofit resident theaters, even though women make up half of all deputies in the field. We collected data from multiple sources: more than 1,300 surveys, 300 résumés, 100 interviews with randomly selected theater leaders and their next-in-line deputies, and additional interviews with theater trustees and search-firm professionals.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2018

The SSMW was derived from my interviews and interactions with hundreds of women in a wide variety of fields. Additionally, women I’ve interviewed believe such comments and behaviors, if repeated often enough, become offensive. Organizations from law firms to tech companies to nonprofits, have been using the spectrum.

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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2021

“In Team of Teams , McChrystal and his colleagues show how the challenges they faced in Iraq can be rel­evant to countless businesses, nonprofits, and or­ganizations today. Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal. ” The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni. ” The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni.

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MishTalk

JUNE 27, 2013

Case Against The Fed. A new nonprofit group, Enroll America, just launched a campaign, "Get Covered America," to help the uninsured in particular learn about the new law and how to sign up for health coverage, which everyone is required to carry starting in 2014. This Week in Money Interview. 2011-03-29 - Sound Money Interview.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2016

To gain insight into these questions, we are interviewing executives at academic health systems. Thus far, we have interviewed executives of systems affiliated with these universities: Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Virginia Commonwealth, and the University of Utah. Most of the interviewed executives favor this latter approach.

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